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The 1884 Democratic National Convention was held July 8–11, 1884 and chose
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of New York their presidential nominee with the former
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of Indiana as the vice presidential nominee.
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Background

The leading candidate for the presidential nomination was
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. Cleveland's reputation for good government made him a national figure. The Republican Party nominated James G. Blaine for president in June 1884, although he had been implicated in a financial scandal. Many influential Republicans were outraged, thought the time had come for a national reform administration and withdrew from the convention. These Republicans were called
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s, and declared that they would vote for the Democratic candidate based on his integrity.


Presidential nomination


Candidates

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 Seven names were placed in nomination:
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, Samuel J. Randall,
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, John G. Carlisle, and
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professed that he was not a candidate for the presidential nomination. When a delegate from Illinois cast the only vote he received on the first ballot, Hendricks rose to ask this vote be withdrawn because it "wrongly" placed him before the convention. Nonetheless, Hendricks made an impressive showing on the second ballot but it was not enough to prevent the nomination of Cleveland. Source
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Vice Presidential nomination

Hendricks, who was the 1876 Democratic vice presidential nominee, was offered the 1884 nomination and accepted.


Vice Presidential candidate

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Withdrawn candidates

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was overwhelming nominated as the Democratic vice-presidential candidate after the names of
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were withdrawn from consideration. Source
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See also

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Grover Cleveland 1884 presidential campaign The 1884 United States presidential election, 1884 presidential election was the first nationwide campaign in which Grover Cleveland participated and the first of two in which he emerged victorious. This election pitted Democratic Party (United St ...
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History of the United States Democratic Party The Democratic Party is one of the two major political parties of the United States political system and the oldest existing political party in that country founded in the 1830s and 1840s. It is also the oldest voter-based political party in t ...
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U.S. presidential nomination convention A United States presidential nominating convention is a political convention held every four years in the United States by most of the political parties who will be fielding nominees in the upcoming U.S. presidential election. The formal purpo ...
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1884 Republican National Convention The 1884 Republican National Convention was a presidential nominating convention held at the Exposition Hall in Chicago, Illinois, on June 3–6, 1884. It resulted in the nomination of former House Speaker James G. Blaine from Maine for presiden ...
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List of Democratic National Conventions This is a list of Democratic National Conventions. These conventions are the presidential nominating conventions of the Democratic Party of the United States. List of Democratic National Conventions * Conventions whose nominees won the subseq ...
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1884 United States presidential election The 1884 United States presidential election was the 25th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 4, 1884. It saw the first Democrat elected President of the United States since James Buchanan in 1856, and the first Democrat ...


Footnotes


Further reading

* Edward B. Dickinson (ed.)
''Official Proceedings of the National Democratic Convention Held in Chicago, Ill., July 8th, 9th, 10th, and 11th, 1884.''
New York: Douglas Taylor's Democratic Printing House, n.d. 884 * Nevins, Allan. ''Grover Cleveland: A Study in Courage'' (1932
online


Primary sources

* Chester, Edward W ''A guide to political platforms'' (1977) pp 109–11
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External links


Democratic Party Platform of 1884
at ''The American Presidency Project'' {{Democratic National Convention 1884 conferences 1884 United States presidential election 1884 in Illinois 1880s in Chicago Political conventions in Chicago Democratic Party of Illinois Political events in Illinois Democratic National Conventions July 1884 events